Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a2c2708f4256ca49…

MALICIOUS

PDF

100.1 KB Created: 2021-07-09 22:24:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: cfd8df86be58bfa41fb6aae91782a8d8 SHA-1: 91d5ca6ad8056e1c403ddf4255fcb92430ef8d89 SHA-256: a2c2708f4256ca491f44a6ce7af1b5dd07a32311d397ef82a8075f9c362f4a30
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a phishing or malware distribution campaign, likely delivered as a spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9922

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://haltia.mx/sii/ckfinder/userfiles/files/59585956971.pdf
    • http://finsura-lifedirect.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c661d242fef---tibuwaferipojenurena.pdf
    • https://www.auditek.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8a7137ab85---nijijimeden.pdf
    • https://edu-mate.kr/_UploadFile/Images/file/62339388984.pdf
    • https://teplitsyoptom.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ec9fc47a9ad2d4c8bc6a1115b6c0132f/45260634282.pdf
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606faba61d071---59804387302.pdf
    • https://an-professional.ru/img/files/file/43331762002.pdf
    • http://www.skupp.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082ef13efe2c---lidaxew.pdf
    • http://www.peretprod.ro/content-images/file/fokukedepiniduvifawofezej.pdf
    • https://grand-forge.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/85703f0c78c300483feb680f9ecd084d/demanelaguzalobufuga.pdf
    • https://www.lipfish.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607718677743e---88228835823.pdf
    • http://akkoryazilim.com/userfiles/file/25789135895.pdf
    • http://c2mag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a752dce5704---naluforida.pdf
    • https://mls.lighting/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1c15d3c81d00155013fc9951e1c70b3e/93608629606.pdf
    • http://naturallabs.fr/userfiles/file/zalutokatosuguzig.pdf
    • http://zerosquareonline.com/file/94398081796.pdf
    • http://titadoorbinhduong.com/upload/files/reremegawosedito.pdf
    • http://coffee33.ru/archive/file/tunirurix.pdf
    • https://beaufortbond.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/19b7180fb4a93cbc5f6e23c99857c6b5/fugijumedozosezozirorux.pdf
    • https://www.uniqueartzz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rrco0f527ivotkog6ugjhccu4u/jakekugefedobimefi.pdf
    • http://sts-logistika.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bb491ca9f7258dcc243cfc109f2fd9bc/vumezigapepojukibetik.pdf
    • http://treeoflifetolfu.com/clients/0/07/07f122ebb3396bb3f917f2e62af81596/File/7347614096.pdf
    • https://carstenrath.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9k1en5v3ve1i1oilr2vhpekvse/wigekikimabiwudaboxon.pdf
    • https://event-connections.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d8ed67c09c---22539744673.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=formula+for+ionisation+energy
    • https://sharpspringwww.kinsta.cloud/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a9a6d38c16e7cb21c75b38629bb05a96/91528843717.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00012183.bin
f7ca9b2852791880c626a7f5ad3e72beef7d871f9f50cd4221b4f766ae9b65f2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12183 18280 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001523a.bin
81b6f582423ac0e4ec1cd10f8de9d814de13388da9ee9eed519b840c4cce44e2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1523A 10748 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00016af4.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16AF4 16792 bytes